It was the afternoon of February 6th. Roughly an
hour after my boyfriend dropped me off to work, he called asking me to check
online if there’s any news that a tsunami was triggered by this morning’s earthquake.
Apparently people on the street were already in great panic because a great
tsunami was coming. I checked online and there was no warning or alert issued
about an approaching killer wave.
It took over an hour for the hysteria to die down. I still get
agitated thinking of the stampede that happened at SM. My heart goes out to all those who got
hurt on the street trying to find a safer place and those whose stuff got
looted away by shameless individuals; all because they were busy running away
from the nonexistent tsunami.
Like I posted on Facebook, “If there’s anything I learned
from the tsunami scare, it’s that knowledge is power.”
This reminds me of the boy who cried wolf. Only in this
case, we don’t know who cried tsunami and we probably never will.
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